Leading Agile

JULY 18, 2023

Additionally, we need to consider how we organize teams in the presence of dependencies, how we orchestrate and govern those dependencies, and what we measure and control around the team. They may also be writing user stories, using burn-down charts, and practicing agile estimating and planning. Second, how are we building backlogs?

Agile 118

Agile Software Review Certification Technical Review 118

Herding Cats

MARCH 17, 2019

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Managment Processes. Project Governance.

2003 54

2003 2011 2008 Performance Measurement 54

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We're working on a White Paper for the Joint Space Cost Council which is an organization composed of government (NRO, NASA, USAF, and others) and industry representatives with an interest in space. And to make those risk-informed decisions in the presence of reducible and irreducible uncertainty we need to ESTIMATE.

Aerospace 37

Aerospace Estimate Governance Government 37

Herding Cats

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Project Controls are Management Actions, either preplanned to achieve the desired result, or taken as a corrective measure prompted by the monitoring process. In the Project Controls paradigm, Value is a measurable attribute of the project controls process - a Closed Loop Control measure. "On spec" is open loop control on value.

2005 37

2005 Performance Measurement Closing Controlling 37

Proofhub

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This can be a group of people, an individual, a whole organization, or even a government. Stakeholders having a high influence but who are affected to a low degree should be part of an advisory board and they should be involved in the communication process proactively. Estimating is a waste of time?—?we but not always.

Estimate 128

Estimate Risk Management Influencer Risk 128

Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Management Processes (#MP). Governance (#Governance). Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Management Processes. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section).

Technical Review 42

Technical Review Performance Measurement Underperforming Technical Team Governance 42

Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . Then you can read " A Complexity Primer for Systems Engineers, A White Paper."

Estimate 37

Estimate Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 37